An operational plan box may be used to describe a particular planned or executed military operation or attack. For operations that resulted in combat, it can be used as an auxiliary template to the military conflict infobox, if necessary; for other types of operations, including those that were planned but never executed, it may be used alone. In the case of conflicts that consisted of multiple independent operations, multiple copies of the box may be used on a single article.

The box should be added using the {{operational plan}} template, as shown below:

Note: When using parameters, avoid the ambiguous abbreviation "N/A", and instead use "unknown" or "none". All subjective or qualitative judgements and numerical quantities or statistics must be cited to a reliable source (see WP:MILMOS#CITE).

name – the name of the operational plan; names in multiple languages may be provided.

partof – optional – the larger conflict containing the event described in the article.

image – optional – an image. The image must be given in the form [[Image:Example.jpg|300px|alt=Example alt text]]; in particular, the thumb attribute must not be selected.

caption – optional – the text to be placed below the image.

location – optional – the location of the operation.

coordinates – optional – the coordinates for the location above, given as {{coord}} with |display=inline,title.

map_type – optional – the base map to be used for the location map, e.g. "Scotland"; see {{location map}} for more details.